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Re: Problems with Microsoft account

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Fokke Nauta wrote:

> My wife and me bought both a time ago a laptop with a W11 account. I 
> configured my account and I found out that my laptop was not accessible 
> from our local network. It was a Microsoft account. I created a new non 
> Microsoft account and deleted the MS account. Now was my laptop 
> accessible from the network.
> But this was a long time ago. Now I want to access my wife's laptop from 
> the laptop, and while she still haves her MS account, I can't access her.
> As it is quite a job to create a new non MS account, and set all things 
> and software from her current MS account over to her new account, is it 
> perhaps possible to change her MS account to a non MS account?


Before proceeding ... If the machine is bitlocker encrypted, either make 
sure you have a backup of the recovery key which is NOT stored on the 
computer, or remove the encryption ... if it came encrypted from the 
factory, and it's Home, you might not be able to re-encrypt it (but I 
think the O/P said it was Pro)

settings,
Accounts,
Your Info,
under account Settings, there should be a button
[sign in with a local account instead]

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Problems with Microsoft account Fokke Nauta <fnauta@solfon.nl> - 2025-02-03 19:22 +0100
  Re: Problems with Microsoft account Fokke Nauta <fnauta@solfon.nl> - 2025-02-03 19:38 +0100
    Re: Problems with Microsoft account Graham J <nobody@nowhere.co.uk> - 2025-02-03 18:52 +0000
  Re: Problems with Microsoft account Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> - 2025-02-03 20:44 +0000
    Re: Problems with Microsoft account Fokke Nauta <fnauta@solfon.nl> - 2025-02-13 15:12 +0100
      Re: Problems with Microsoft account Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> - 2025-02-14 07:54 +0000
        Re: Problems with Microsoft account Fokke Nauta <fnauta@solfon.nl> - 2025-02-28 18:55 +0100
  Re: Problems with Microsoft account ...w¡ñ§±¤ñ  <winstonmvp@gmail.com> - 2025-02-03 14:34 -0700
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      Re: Problems with Microsoft account Graham J <nobody@nowhere.co.uk> - 2025-02-03 23:09 +0000
    Re: Problems with Microsoft account Char Jackson <none@none.invalid> - 2025-02-03 19:46 -0600
  Re: Problems with Microsoft account Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2025-02-03 20:26 -0500
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  Re: Problems with Microsoft account Fokke Nauta <fnauta@solfon.nl> - 2025-02-13 15:13 +0100

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